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Der Browser Timer

Der Browser Timer is a timer/clock/alarm add-on for the Mozilla FireFox browser.

It allows you to set
an audible and/or visual alarm by specifying the alarm time in one of
three ways: as a relative count down time (e.g. set the alarm to go off
in thirty minutes), as an absolute target time (e.g. set the alarm to go
off at 7:45 am), or as a regular interval (e.g. set the alarm to go off
hourly at five minutes before the hour). In addition, Der Browser Timer
can be set to signal the hour and/or half hour with an alternate tone
like a cuckoo clock.

The program is functionally, if not visually, patterned after a clock radio,
with a simple interface consisting of a digital time readout and several indicator
icons that can be placed anywhere on one of the browser toolbars. Left clicking on
the time will toggle between several display formats. Right clicking will open the
main application menu where you can enable the alarm, access Der Browser Timer settings,
and display Help information.

Der Browser Timer isn't designed for task scheduling or event
planning - if you're interested in the latter, try
the Mozilla Calendar
extension.

Other features:

Multiple time and date display formats. Menu bar clock can display the
current time (in 12- or 24-hour format), the current date, browser uptime, or
the time remaining until the alarm, if any, is set to fire.

Optional alarm notifications include popup window, alert slider, and audible
alarm, in addition to the reasonably unobtrusive menu bar icons used to indicate
alarm. Can also load one or more web pages at alarm time.

Choice of alarm and cuckoo sounds. Currently includes four standard alarm sounds,
four cuckoo sounds, and the option to specify a .wav file for either.

Snooze function: click the alarm icon on the menu bar or use the snooze
bar in the alarm notification popup window to temporarily silence the alarm.

The following new features and enhancements are planned for the near future:

verbal time announcement alarm/cuckoo sound option

reimplementing the alarm function as a service (singleton) - this should allow
for persisting the cuckoo on/off state, and, possibly, standing alarms

Additionally, work is under way or being considered on these items:

expanding alarm sound options to include 1) .ogg files
and, possibly, streams by
providing an ogg vorbis player component via XPCOM and 2) other audio file formats by spawning
a third party player as
Foobar Controls does.

sleep timer, which will provide the capability to play audio (a set of audio files, or possibly
an internet stream) until it expires.

a minimal Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client

Acknowledgements

The original menu bar location and time display toggling feature of Der Browser Timer were
modeled after the Clock extension.